Michigan Legislature's to-do list: Health care, roads, taxes

12:03 AM,
Sep. 1, 2013

Michigan State Capitol Building.

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After a 10-week summer break, the state Legislature will be back Tuesday with a lot more than Medicaid expansion and road funding on members' minds.

But first things first: The Senate will discuss revisiting its decision not to give immediate effect to its vote to expand Medicaid to an additional 470,000 low-income Michiganders.

That lack of action would push the expansion's effective date to April 1, costing the state $7 million a day in federal funding to sign up and have recipients use the expanded health care coverage. The Medicaid expansion is the result of the Affordable Care Act. Many ...